Heel beading and milling tool



(No Model.)

0. F. LEIGHTON.

v HEEL BEADING AND MILLING TOOL. No. 391,753. Patented Oct. 23, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CARLETON F. LEIGHTON, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF TVVO- THIRDS TO CHARLES S. HILL, OF SAME PLACE, AND FORREST D. GREENE,

OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL BEADING AND MILLING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,753, dated October 23, 1888.

Application filed July 14, 1888. Serial No. 279,935. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARLETON F. LEIGHTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Beverly, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Heel Beading and Milling Tools, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

[O This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in heel beading and milling tools for the purpose of producing a millingsurface upon the curved heel portion of the sole, and to produce a beading-surface above Y 5 said milling-surface at the junction with the upper, as will hereinafter be more fully shown and described, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 represents a sectional side eleva- 2o tion of the invention, and Fig. 2 represents an end view as seen from X in Fig. 1, showing a portion of the beading-disk as broken away.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

a represents the head or frame of the machine, which may be of any suitable shape, size, or construction, and provided with bearings a a, in which is journaled the rotary 3o shaft b, that is set in a quick rotary motion by means of belt-power applied to its fast pulley b. b is a loose pulley on said shaft b.

To the outer end of the shaft b is secured in a suitable manner the circular beading-disk c. In the drawings I have represented said disk as being arranged on the outer reduced portion, I), of the spindle b and secured to the latter by means of a nut; but this is not es sential, as the said disk may be secured in a 0 detachable manner to said shaft in any other well-known or equivalent manner without departing from the essence of my invention.

The rotary circular disk 0 has on its outer periphery a thin edge, 0, adapted to enter the groove at the junction of the boot or shoe upper and its sole, and it serves for the purpose of properly guiding the boot or shoe relative to the beading and milling tool during the progress of the work.

0 is a circular head on the disk 0, which bead may be of any suitable form or design for the purpose of producing the beading-surface s on the heel portion of the sole-edge, as shown in Fig. 1.

d is the serrated wheel, loosely j ournaled 5 on the shaft 1) close to the inside of the rotary beading-disk 0, and back of said wheel, between it and an adjustable collar, 6, on the shaft b, is loosely journaled on the latter the smooth circular hub f, that serves as a support for the heel H during the operation of beading and milling.

, The wheel 01 and hub f are preferably secured together by means of pins f f f, as shown; but this is not essential, as said parts 6 may be secured together in any other suitable manner, or not at all, without departing from the spirit of my invention.

8 in Fig. 1 represents the millingsurface produced by the serrated wheel d on the sole- 7o edge or heel-rand.

By having the collar 0 adjustable on the shaft 1), as shown in Fig. 1, it may be arranged on and secured to said shaft 1) in such a manner as to prevent the hub f and wheel d from moving longitudinally on said shaft, and also to permit the latter to be rotated quickly without imparting motion to said hub and wheel.

The disk 0 may be heated, if so desired, by means of a lamp or gas-jet, or by friction only, as may be desired. In using the machine the shaft 1) and its beading-disk c are set in quick rotation by belt-power applied to its pulley b. The operator then grasps the boot or shoe and guides it against the diskc, so that the edge 8 5 c of the latter is inserted at the junction of the sole and upper, as shown in Fig. 1.

The heel of the boot or shoe during the operation is brought to bear by the operator against the hub f, which, as well as the wheel c 11, is free to follow the motion of the boot or shoe heel as the latter is oscillated from breast to breast by the operator. During such oscillation of the boot or shoe the wheel d causes the milling-surface s to be made on the heel or the sole-edge, as shown in Fig. 1, at thesame time as the beading-surface s is produced by the quick rotation of the beading-disk c.

Having thus fully described the nature, con- In testimony whereof I have signed my name struction, and operation of my invention, I tothisspecification, in the preseneeof two subwish to secure by Letters Patent and claim scribing witnesses, on this 12th day of July,

The boot or shoe tool, as described, consist- A. D. 1888.

5 ing of the rotary shaft 1) and its beading-disk c, secured together, combined. with the wheel OARLETON F. LEIGHTON. cl and hubf, loosely journaled on the said shaft, and the collar 6, longitudinally adj usta- Witnesses: ble 011 the latter, substantially as and for the ALBAN ANDREN, 1o purpose set forth. CARL A. ANDREN. 

